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Post by at40petebattistini on Nov 20, 2023 18:08:09 GMT -5
When the November 28, 1987 show originally aired over Thanksgiving weekend 36 years ago, retail sales were in full holiday/winter mode. And numerous AT40 sponsors back then sought the ‘economic attention’ (i.e., cash) of radio listeners. They included: *Vicks Throat Drops *Lionel Trains *Discover Card *Halls Cough Tablets *Footlocker Sporting Apparel *Hershey’s Bar None *Greyhound Bus *and Orion Pictures, promoting the movie Throw Mama From The Train“…Now back to Casey Kasem and American Top 40…”
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Post by doofus67 on Nov 20, 2023 19:33:13 GMT -5
Casey answered a question about artists who had the most #1s in a row, and the leaders at that point were the Beatles and the Bee Gees, each of whom had six such. That record would next be matched and then broken by Whitney Houston, who was in the countdown with the first of what would be seven straight #1s. An important note: Whitney pulled off her streak with consecutive charted singles, but not with consecutive single releases. Between "Saving All My Love for You" and "How Will I Know," Arista put out another single for R&B radio only in October '85. "Thinking About You" was available on 7-inch vinyl. It missed the Hot 100 but went top-10 R&B and top-20 dance. Then the next release could go out to all formats all at once, and, as Casey would say during the '85 year-ender, "Big things ahead for...Hwitney Houston." (Hey, that was how he pronounced it.)
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Post by Jessica on Nov 21, 2023 19:52:43 GMT -5
When the November 28, 1987 show originally aired over Thanksgiving weekend 36 years ago, retail sales were in full holiday/winter mode. And numerous AT40 sponsors back then sought the ‘economic attention’ (i.e., cash) of radio listeners. They included: *Vicks Throat Drops *Lionel Trains *Discover Card *Halls Cough Tablets *Footlocker Sporting Apparel *Hershey’s Bar None *Greyhound Bus *and Orion Pictures, promoting the movie Throw Mama From The Train“…Now back to Casey Kasem and American Top 40…” Wow, I remember going to see “Throw Mama From The Train” with my mom because I was a big fan of Danny DeVito and the scary lady from “The Goonies” but I will be watching the ultimate Thanksgiving movie this weekend:”Planes,Trains and Automobiles”. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 21, 2023 22:44:10 GMT -5
"Planes Trains & Automobiles" is one of my favorite comedies-Steve Martin & John Candy were outstanding!
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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 21, 2023 22:46:55 GMT -5
Two of the OE's from 11/28/87 were future # 1 hits in early 1988:"Could've Been" & "Seasons Change".
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Post by at40petebattistini on Nov 23, 2023 10:17:11 GMT -5
On a related topic, I wonder why WWIS doesn't move the show an hour earlier this time of year. WWIS-AM is a 'daytimer' (per Radio Locator) and sunset in Black River Falls today is 4:35PM (yuck!). Which means that the station goes 'dark' at 4:30 in November. I guess the station doesn't care that their over-the-air listeners (all five of them ) don't get to hear the entire show this time of year. Radio consultant K.M. Richards, who regularly monitors comments posted to this site, offered this response… “Having only recently negotiated the contract with Premiere for KRKE, I distinctly remember that the airtimes are spelled out in same. (KRKE specifically has Sunday 8:00am to noon, with the option of a repeat Sunday 8:00pm to midnight.) So WWIS probably is locked into their airtime as well, despite Mother Nature forcing them to sign off at sunset. … I would bet that most of their audience listens to their 105.3 translator, just as pretty much none of KRKE's listeners are tuned to 1100 AM.” With permission, here is K.M.’s contact information. email: kmr@kmrichards.com web: www.kmrichards.com
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Post by lasvegaskid on Nov 23, 2023 10:26:30 GMT -5
On a related topic, I wonder why WWIS doesn't move the show an hour earlier this time of year. WWIS-AM is a 'daytimer' (per Radio Locator) and sunset in Black River Falls today is 4:35PM (yuck!). Which means that the station goes 'dark' at 4:30 in November. I guess the station doesn't care that their over-the-air listeners (all five of them ) don't get to hear the entire show this time of year. Radio consultant K.M. Richards, who regularly monitors comments posted to this site, offered this response… “Having only recently negotiated the contract with Premiere for KRKE, I distinctly remember that the airtimes are spelled out in same. (KRKE specifically has Sunday 8:00am to noon, with the option of a repeat Sunday 8:00pm to midnight.) So WWIS probably is locked into their airtime as well, despite Mother Nature forcing them to sign off at sunset. … I would bet that most of their audience listens to their 105.3 translator, just as pretty much none of KRKE's listeners are tuned to 1100 AM.” With permission, here is K.M.’s contact information. email: kmr@kmrichards.com web: www.kmrichards.comOr just finish the show online. It's not unusual for stations to have something different on their stream than what is going out over the air; live sports broadcasts for example.
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Post by seminolefan on Nov 23, 2023 11:12:29 GMT -5
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Post by jmack19 on Nov 23, 2023 23:05:23 GMT -5
Any special shows for the Thanksgiving weekend planned? I haven't heard of any extra shows airing so was wondering. WQMV is currently starting hour 3 of 1986's Giants of Rock. WFMX airs random shows every Sunday at 8PM eastern.
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Post by JMW on Nov 25, 2023 17:23:50 GMT -5
11/28/1987 is one of those shows where it seems like half the songs had their endings cut off early. It's especially irritating when they do it to a song that was also edited (i.e. So Emotional).
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Post by Jessica on Nov 25, 2023 23:08:29 GMT -5
That LDD from “Robert and Donna in Northern California” about their baby girl dying is absolutely heartbreaking. It seemed that even Casey had to keep from crying.
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Post by kani on Nov 26, 2023 12:39:18 GMT -5
Few 1987 notes:, KOKZ I listened mostly, rest on WPNC mention of black singles: godking james brown, master blaster Stevie Wonder 18th #1 black singles
soft jingle: little lies, is this love
Squeeze story, broke up and reunited back
top 40 hit in 1978 (snippet): wild and crazy kid, orange county California: host of Sat Night Live: Steve Martin story
top #1 hit had live #1 song list, and #1 song live 60s: #1 1962 (snippet) Peppermint Twist – Part 1, and Stevie Wonder - Fingertips (another snippet)
4 teens so far in 1977: Leif Garrett, Andy Gibb, Shawn Cassidy, Marie Osmond, last time 4 teens had top 40 hit in year... 1987 was then Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, Glenn Medeiros, and LL Cool J
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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 26, 2023 19:41:05 GMT -5
Five years after Billy Idol reached # 1 with his live rendition of "Mony Mony",Mariah Carey went to # 1 with her version of The Jackson Five's "I'll Be There" which was recorded live on an episode of "MTV Unplugged".
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Post by secretman on Nov 26, 2023 21:06:11 GMT -5
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Post by JMW on Nov 27, 2023 11:14:11 GMT -5
With 12/11/1982 out of the way, these are now the top 5 shows that have gone the longest since their last airings:
1: 11/27/1982 - 2014 2: 07/21/1984 - 2015 (B) 3: 08/02/1980 - 2015 (A) 4: 10/24/1981 - 2015 (A) 5: 11/29/1986 - 2015
Will all five of these air next year? Stay tuned...
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